Correction

October 20, 2001

An article about Columbia's Blandair estate that appeared in Tuesday's Maryland section incorrectly reported that the farm's longtime owner, Elizabeth C. "Nancy" Smith, died of a heart attack. She suffered a stroke. Also, her friend Byron C. Hall Jr. clarified why she took a post office box in Ellicott City instead of getting her mail delivered in Columbia: After Route 175 was built through her property, he said, Smith lost direct access to her mailbox.